Anemone plant named ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’

ABSTRACT

The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Japanese Anemone plant named Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ with compact spreading habit, vertical peduncle of numerous semi-double flowers with dark rosy pink petals, beginning late summer and continuing into early fall, set just above the dark green, tri-foliate leaves with irregularly serrated to bi-serrated. The new plant is useful for landscaping as a specimen, en masse, or in containers.

Latin botanical classification: Anemone hybrid.

Variety denomination: ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the new and distinct cultivar of Japanese Anemone, botanically known as Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’, and hereinafter referred to as the cultivar ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ or the “new plant”. The new plant was an intentional cross by the inventor at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich., USA in the fall of 2014 between ‘Pamina’ (riot patented) as the female or seed parent and ‘Pretty Lady Emily’ U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,303 as the male or pollen parent. The seed were harvested and the new plant was assigned the breeder code 14-18-30 during the evaluation process at the same nursery. Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ has been asexually propagated through root cuttings first in 2016 at the same nursery in Zeeland, Mich. and subsequently also by sterile plant tissue culture. Plants of ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ have been found to be stable and identical to the original selection in multiple generations of asexual propagation.

No plants of Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ have been sold, in this country or anywhere in the world, prior to the filing of this application, nor has any disclosure of the new plant been made prior to the filing of this application except that which was disclosed within one year of the filing of this application and was either derived directly or indirectly from the inventor.

‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ has not been observed under all possible environments. The phenotype may vary slightly with different environmental conditions, such as temperature, light, fertility, moisture and maturity levels, but without any change in the genotype.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PLANT

‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ is unique from all other Japanese Anemone known to the inventor. The new plant compares most closely with its parent ‘Pretty Lady Emily’ and sibling and co-pending application ‘Curtain Call Pink’ U.S. application Ser. No. 15/932,161. Compared to ‘Pretty Lady Emily’ the new plant is slightly taller and more flowers per plant with more petals per flower. In comparison to ‘Pamina’ (not patented) the new plant is shorter with more branching habit and has more uniformly semi-double flower. Compared with ‘Curtain Call Pink’ the new plant differs in flower color, the new plant having dark rosy pink petals.

The new plant, Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’, is distinct from all other Japanese Anemone known to the inventor through the following combined characteristics:

-   -   1. Semi-double flowers of dark rosy pink on branched panicle.     -   2. Flowering beginning late summer flowering and continuing into         early fall.     -   3. Compact spreading habit and dark green foliage.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The photographs of the new plant demonstrate the unique traits and the overall appearance of Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’. The colors are as accurate as reasonably possible with color reproductions. Variation in ambient light spectrum, source and direction may cause the appearance of minor variation in color. The plant used in the photographs was two-years-old and was grown in a full-sun nursery trial garden in Zeeland, Mich. with supplemental water and fertilizer when needed. No pinching or plant growth regulators have been used.

FIG. 1 shows the new plant in mid-season flowering habit.

FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flower scape.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

The following descriptions and color references are based on the 2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where common dictionary terms are used. Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’ has not been observed under all possible environments. The phenotype may vary slightly with different growing environments such as temperature, light, fertility, soil pH, moisture and plant maturity levels, but without any change in the genotype. The following observations and size descriptions are based on three-year-old plants growing in a 50% shaded trial garden in Zeeland, Mich. Plants were given supplemental water and fertilizer but no plant growth regulators were used.

-   Botanical classification: Anemone hybrid; -   Parentage: Female or seed parent is ‘Pamina’; male or pollen parent     is ‘Pretty Lady Emily’; -   Plant habit: Hardy herbaceous perennial; small mounded foliage with     flowers arranged on branched raceme just above foliage; foliage     height to about 25.0 cm tall and flower height to about 40.0 cm     tall; plant width about 45.0 cm at widest point at about 20 cm above     soil level; -   Growth rate: Moderately vigorous, finishing in a 65 mm plug from a     rooted Stage 3 tissue culture explants in about 8 weeks and     finishing in a 3.8 liter container from a 65 mm plug in about 8     weeks; -   Root: Fine, fibrous; less than 0.5 mm diameter; heavily branched;     color nearest RHS 165C; -   Foliage: Tri-foliate, cleft to petiole; center lobe ovate, with side     lobes ovate to irregularly dissected; apex typically acute; base     rounded, frequently imbricate; margin irregularly serrate to     bi-serrate; adaxial and abaxial surfaces glabrous; mostly basal;     leaf attitude slightly drooping; cauline leaves decreasing in size     and with more acute apex; -   Leaf size: Average about 6.5 cm long and 5.5 cm across, center lobe     to about 4.0 cm long and 2.5 cm across; side lobes average about 3.2     cm long and 2.2 cm across; -   Leaf blade color: Emerging adaxial nearest RHS 143A, abaxial nearest     RHS 143B; mature adaxial nearest blend between RHS 139A and RHS     137A, abaxial blend between RHS 147C and RHS 137C; -   Veins: Palmate; puberulent and slightly impressed on adaxial surface     and slightly ridged and puberulent on abaxial surface; -   Vein color: Same as surrounding leaf tissue; -   Petiole: Terete; puberulent, dull; about 2.5 cm long and about 2.5     mm diameter at base; cauline leaves sessile; -   Petiole color: Nearest RHS 139A; -   Flower attitude: Upright; -   Inflorescence: Terminal corymb; with gynoecium surrounded by     numerous androecium; average size flowering panicle about 6.5 cm     across and about 2.0 cm tall; about 2 to 4 flowers per branched     peduncle; with about 65 flowers per plant; flower timing in Michigan     begins late summer and continues for about four weeks on the plant; -   Buds about two days prior to anthesis and after sepals split:     Globose with rounded apex and rounded base; about 1.5 cm diameter     and about 1.5 cm tall; -   Bud color: Sepals nearest RHS N186C with pubescence between sepals     nearest RHS 202D; -   Petals: Spatulate; with acute apex, attenuate base; entire margin;     glabrous; irregularly sized, to 2.5 cm long and 14.0 mm wide near     apex, average about 2.3 cm long and 12.0 mm wide near apex; about 18     petals per flower; -   Petal color: Adaxial variable initially nearest RHS N74A and     lightening to between RHS N74C and RHS N74B; abaxial between RHS 75C     and RHS 73D; -   Flower fragrance: None detected; -   Flower persistence: Self-cleaning; -   Gynoecium: Numerous; in domed cap; average 10.0 mm across and 7.0 mm     tall; -   Androecium: Numerous; about 100;     -   -   Filaments.—Fine; terete; about 3.0 mm long and less than 0.2             mm diameter; color nearest RHS 145C.         -   Stamens.—Ellipsoidal; basifixed; longitudinal; rounded apex             and base; about 2.0 mm long and 1.0 mm across; color nearest             RHS 15A.         -   Pollen.—Abundant; color nearest RHS N25B. -   Calyx: Ovate; strongly cupped; acute apex and base fused; margin     entire; puberulent abaxial, glabrous adaxial; typically about 5 per     flower; color between RHS 187B and RHS 187C with basal one-third     nearest RHS 138C; -   Peduncle: About 22 per plant; terete; pubescent; attitude vertical;     to about 40 cm long and 3.0 mm diameter at base; -   Peduncle color: Neatest RHS N186B; -   Fruit and seed have not yet been observed; -   Hardiness, pest and disease resistance: The new plant grows best     with ample moisture, adequate drainage and shade from hot sun.     Hardiness at least from USDA zone 5 zone 9. Disease and pest     resistance beyond what is typical of that of other Japanese Anemone     has not been observed. 

I claim:
 1. A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental Japanese Anemone plant named Anemone ‘Curtain Call Deep Rose’, as herein described and illustrated. 